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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I’m finally getting back to this.

    Had a work push and then a virus. I really find I have even less attention for listening and podcasts when I’m ill.

    One thing that I’ve figured out is that the audio quality varies widely depending on the service one is getting podcasts from or the delivery app.

    The base recording is excellent and the sound effects are there. Some of the players have so much noise that you’d never realize that.

    In any event, I tried out different players and found that Cassidy’s delivery was much less mumbly on better audio players regardless of being on the same device.

    Something to consider when getting podcasts even through open source players.



  • I agree. These folks have no perspective or are dishonest with themselves.

    I can acknowledge that it can be jarring, and it can take time to accept a major visual design update.

    I felt that in 1979 as I sat in the theatre watching Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

    I had no heads up whatsoever that the Klingon design had changed. I was completely confused in the opening scenes with the Klingons. I couldn’t figure out what species they were.

    But I got over it. Quickly.

    I still think TMP is disappointing, long boring movie that rehashes the Nomad plot from TOS. The Klingon redesign wasn’t its problem though.


  • It seems more that Larry Ellison is giving his adult children amounts of money to invest to learn how to run businesses.

    Amounts that for most others would be an inheritance in themselves are less than a year’s interest on Larry’s overall fortune.

    David and his sister both started out with a certain amount.

    His sister’s firm got into financial difficulties so Larry appointed a co head and hasn’t invested more.

    David made his investment in creating Skydance profitable and so his father is investing more.

    It’s a better solution than Trump taking his cut of the inheritance and bankrupting it, and then getting full control and bankrupting again.

    That’s not to say even so that Larry isn’t taking advantage of the CBS part of the purchase to reshape its news to his own vision.















  • The most simple acronym would be SA. It’s unfortunately the acronym for so many different things that it wouldn’t have a difficult time establishing an identity with and for the who.

    If the VOY, ENT and DIS precedent were followed, some have proposed ACA since STA for Star could fit any of the shows. (I have seen ACA in the wild on other social media.)

    The quibble with SFA is that Starfleet is one word not two and it’s unprecedented to go with the first letter in a syllable to get the designation.

    For what it’s worth, SA seems to be what Memory Alpha has landed on. It’s designating article stubs for the show as ‘SA Performers’ etc.